"To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free...to a time when truth exists, and what is done cannot be undone...From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink--greetings!" - George Orwell, 1984

Monday, June 25, 2012

They're Messing With Texas

Dear Mr. Covington:

I've started reading your
novels and have listened to your podcasts. I am inspired and would like
you to send me some pamphlets that I can leave on the doors of my
few remaining white neighbors. They keep leaving their once white
neighborhoods and trying to move to less black or Mexican one's
instead of leaving Texas
altogether and heading Northwest, which is
what I'm working on doing. Here's my address: [redacted
for obvious reasons]

-Kenny L.

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Dear Kenny:

I actually came up here from Texas myself. One of the things I noticed before I left was that when you went into a grocery store or Wal-Mart or some other public place, the checkout people greeted you in Spanish first. So I know where you're coming from. Literally.